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Variations | Glenn Gould, 1956

"I couldn't imagine a life in which I would not be surrounded by music.

It shelters you from the world, protects you, and keeps you at a certain

distance from the world."

Glenn Gould

Brilliant young Canadian pianist Glenn Gould laughing as engineers let him hear how his singing spoiled his recording of theBach Goldberg Variations after which he offered to wear a gas mask to muffle his songs, at a Columbia recording studio.
New York, NY, March 1956. Photo by Gordon Parks